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‘Vaxmobile’ visits 5TCC By mAtthEw FERREmI mferremi@liherald.com
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mAtthEw ARRoyARE, 20, of Inwood, received a Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine at the Five Towns Community Center in Lawrence on April 15.
After spending weeks looking for a Covid-19 vaccination appointment, Dan Segarra took a short walk from his business, Warrior Scholar Martial Arts, on Lawrence Avenue in Lawrence, to the Five Towns Community Center for his first inoculation. Segarra received one of 115 doses of the Pfizer vaccine administered at the community center on April 15, with the assistance of the Town of Hempstead and Mount Sinai South Nassau’s “Vaxmobile.” The singleshot Johnson & Johnson
vaccine was originally scheduled to be administered at the center two days earlier, but that was postponed after federal health officials called for a pause of the vaccine because of a potential issue with blood clots. “I was trying to get a shot for weeks before I realized the community center was giving out shots,” Segarra said. “It was fantastic when I found that out, because it’s literally walking distance from my office. It was the easiest shot I ever got, and I barely felt it.” The Vaxmobile made its debut in Uniondale on Continued on page 8
Gabriel Leifer is honored for his success on the court By JEFFREy BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com
For Lawrence native Gabriel Leifer, choosing to focus on basketball instead of playing floor hockey in seventh grade, at the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach (now in Woodmere), was like winning the lottery. Leifer, 23, never looked back. After four years of playing basketball at Davis Renov Stahler High School for Boys, in Woodmere, he became, in the words of his DRS coach, Avrum Stein, “the most dominating player” in the Metropolitan Yeshiva High School Athletic League.
“In high school, I wasn’t thinking about college [ball], I was thinking about getting better,” Leifer said. “In between 10th and 11th grade, one of my best friends switched to HAFTR” — the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School — “and I had to step up, take over and grew into the player I started to become in college.” After four years at Yeshiva University, which Leifer said complemented his observant Jewish lifestyle, he is graduating with a long list of accomplishments on the court, and will step into a job at the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers this
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verall, he’s the most selfless player I’ve been around. EllIott StEINmEtz
Yeshiva University coach summer. On Jan. 12, 2020, he married Avigail Hackal. For his skill on the hardwood, he was one of four recipients of the Jewish Sports Heritage Association’s Jay Fiedler Outstanding Jewish College Athlete of the Year Award, along with Jeri-
cho native Adam Fox, of Harvard, now a star defenseman for the New York Rangers, Sylvie Binder, of Columbia, for fencing, and Hannah Fox (no relation to Adam), of Amherst College, for basketball. The Jewish Sports Heritage Association, run by Great Neck resident Alan Freedman, execu-
tive director of Temple Israel of Lawrence, will present a variety of honors to 2020 award winners at a virtual ceremony on Sunday. Last year’s ceremony was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. April is Jewish Sports Heritage Month. “This group of Jewish men Continued on page11